Conducting an interview can be a very nerve-racking and scary experience. You have a big responsibility to conduct a successful interview and to ensure that you receive the best response, for example, asking appropriate questions. Interviewing can be very difficult to get right, particularly if you have a subject quite unwilling to open up. Without some professionalism, a little engagement and the ability to set your subject at ease, then your interview might not go as well as anticipated. In this blog, I have summarised a few tips that I discovered in a how to conduct an interview video blog, which was created by a video production company.
To begin the interview a simple question or general conversation often helps the subject to relax and ease into the interview. It does not matter whether they get the question right, in this case you can all have a bit of a laugh and joke about it, again easing the whole experience. This does not have to be used in the final edit. Not only this, it is quite important to let the subject go through there stuff two or three times, so they are able to warm up. Also it is important that the interview is shot more that once so that there is more than enough footage when it comes to the editing, the worst thing is not having enough material.
The set-up of the interview is a simple yet crucial thing to keep in mind. It's a good idea to have someone sat next to the camera, either from your team or, preferably someone the subject knows, asking a few questions so that the subject isn't having to deal with the pressure of looking directly at the camera. This also means that they do not need to freak out talking to the camera, talking to someone else is much easier. This way they can also imagine that they are having an informal question and answer session rather than an interview, also making it easier for the subject to keep eye contact with the interviewer.
By keeping answers short and in context, this allows much more flexibility and ease in putting it all together when it comes to the final edit. In particular if you have got more than one camera rolling. When I say 'in context', I mean getting the subject to use company names rather than 'we' and perhaps even asking them to begin an answer with the question - that is if you don't want your own interviewing voice incorporated in the video - that way it is always clear what's being discussed about.
Leading an interview is not a simple task but once you get the hang of it after a couple of times it can be made really enjoyable. Personally I believe that a lot rides on the person you are interviewing and how they react and there personality.
To begin the interview a simple question or general conversation often helps the subject to relax and ease into the interview. It does not matter whether they get the question right, in this case you can all have a bit of a laugh and joke about it, again easing the whole experience. This does not have to be used in the final edit. Not only this, it is quite important to let the subject go through there stuff two or three times, so they are able to warm up. Also it is important that the interview is shot more that once so that there is more than enough footage when it comes to the editing, the worst thing is not having enough material.
The set-up of the interview is a simple yet crucial thing to keep in mind. It's a good idea to have someone sat next to the camera, either from your team or, preferably someone the subject knows, asking a few questions so that the subject isn't having to deal with the pressure of looking directly at the camera. This also means that they do not need to freak out talking to the camera, talking to someone else is much easier. This way they can also imagine that they are having an informal question and answer session rather than an interview, also making it easier for the subject to keep eye contact with the interviewer.
By keeping answers short and in context, this allows much more flexibility and ease in putting it all together when it comes to the final edit. In particular if you have got more than one camera rolling. When I say 'in context', I mean getting the subject to use company names rather than 'we' and perhaps even asking them to begin an answer with the question - that is if you don't want your own interviewing voice incorporated in the video - that way it is always clear what's being discussed about.
Leading an interview is not a simple task but once you get the hang of it after a couple of times it can be made really enjoyable. Personally I believe that a lot rides on the person you are interviewing and how they react and there personality.
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